Following a recent spike in hostilities, Pakistan and Iran agreed to restore their ambassadors on January 26, 2024, indicating a diplomatic settlement. After Pakistan withdrew its ambassador on January 17, in response to Iran’s missile strikes on militant bases inside Pakistani territory, the move was a momentous one. The first gap appeared when Iran launched […]
Following airstrikes on each other’s soil, Pakistan extended an olive branch to Iran on Friday, proposing to tackle every issue with trust as their guide days after tensions spiked as both sides launched air strikes inside each other’s borders The resolve came during caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani’s telephonic conversation with his Iranian counterpart, […]
The simmering tensions between Pakistan and Iran seem to be de-escalating as the top officials of the countries exchanged positive messages. Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch shared a tête-à-tête between Additional Foreign Secretary Rahim Hayat Qureshi and his Iranian counterpart Seyed Rasoul Mousavi on her X handle, saying: “Some positive exchanges. Some positive exchanges […]
Imran Khan, the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and a former prime minister, has harshly condemned Iran for violating Pakistan’s airspace and called for an investigation into the events that preceded this incident. Khan emphasized the importance of determining how the situation came to such a dangerous point during an unofficial media discussion with the […]
Pakistan appears to have retaliated against Tehran for violating its airspace more than a day prior by conducting early-morning airstrikes on terrorist hideouts in Iran’s Siestan-o-Balochistan province on Thursday. Shortly afterward, the Foreign Office (FO) issued a statement confirming the unusual step. “Pakistan launched a series of precisely targeted, well-coordinated military attacks this morning against […]
Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday that his country’s armed forces targeted an “Iranian terrorist group” in Pakistan the day before after Islamabad said the strike killed two children. “Iranian missiles and drones targeted none of the nationals of the friendly and brotherly country of Pakistan,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on the […]
The death toll was revised down from around 100 the day after what Iranian authorities labeled a “terrorist attack” that also left hundreds wounded near Soleimani’s tomb in the southern city of Kerman. No one claimed responsibility for the explosions in Iran, which has suffered deadly attacks in the past from jihadists and other militants […]
On Saturday, actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas was attacked for extending her support to the Iranian women protesting against the death of a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini. Amini was arrested by the ‘morality police’ in Tehran for not properly wearing a hijab as per mandatory hijab laws of the country and she was then killed by the […]
Onion and tomato, much in use in our cooking, witnessed a massive rise in prices in recent weeks as flash floods washed away entire crops, thereby compounding the food emergency situation in the country. To deal with this crisis, the government decided to issue permits for imports from neighbouring countries to minimise the transport time […]
Ebrahim Raisi, the hardline head of Iran’s judiciary, has been hailed the country’s new president after his three main rivals congratulated him on his victory and preliminary results showed he had secured 17.8m votes, a huge 14.5m more than his nearest rival. With 90% of the votes counted, Iranian officials said 28.6 million people had […]
